netdev - Re: [PATCH v11 13/23] cxl: define a driver interface for DPA allocation

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Message-ID: <1104f4b5-460c-4681-817a-43512f1b03d8@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:06:13 -0500
From: Ben Cheatham <benjamin.cheatham@....com>
To: <alejandro.lucero-palau@....com>
CC: <linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<dan.j.williams@...el.com>, <edward.cree@....com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	<dave.jiang@...el.com>, <benjamin.cheatham@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 13/23] cxl: define a driver interface for DPA
 allocation

On 3/10/25 4:03 PM, alejandro.lucero-palau@....com wrote:
> From: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@....com>
> 
> Region creation involves finding available DPA (device-physical-address)
> capacity to map into HPA (host-physical-address) space. Define an API,
> cxl_request_dpa(), that tries to allocate the DPA memory the driver
> requires to operate. The memory requested should not be bigger than the
> max available HPA obtained previously with cxl_get_hpa_freespace.
> 
> Based on https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/168592158743.1948938.7622563891193802610.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@....com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Ben Cheatham <benjamin.cheatham@....com>